Charles Anthon

Charles Anthon

Charles Anthon (born November 19, 1797 in New York City , New York , † July 29, 1867 ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

George Christian Anthon was a German physician who served during the American Revolution until the 1788 defeat in Detroit . He rose to the rank of general physician , married the daughter of a French officer, and settled in New York City.

His son Charles began studying law after graduating from Columbia College in 1815 and was admitted to the bar in 1819, but never practiced. In 1820 he was appointed assistant professor of Greek and Latin at his old college, and ten years later he was made full professor. At the same time he was headmaster of the grammar school, which was then part of his college, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School , a position he held until 1864.

Anthon was also involved in an authenticity discussion regarding a fragment of Joseph Smith 's translation of the Book of Mormon , known as the Anthon Transcript .

Edgar Allan Poe was one of his social friends .

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Anthon produced a large number of annotated school editions by Latin and Greek authors, as well as teaching and reference books for school and college use, which remained in use for a long time, although they were less popular with school teachers because of their numerous aids. An example is A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era , a work that listed all Greek authors in this period, including a short biography and bibliography.

Anthons work was continued by his successor Henry Drisler (1818-1897).

Fonts (selection)

Reference and teaching books

• Elements of Latin Prosody and Meter. Swords, New York 1824 ( online ).
• As editor: Lemprière 's Bibliotheca Classica. A classical dictionary: containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors. 5th American edition, 1825 ( online ).
• As editor: Richard Valpy: The Elements of Greek Grammar. 8th edition, 1833 ( online ).
• A Grammar of the Greek Language. 1838 ( online )
  • Revised edition by JR Major and DD Thomas Tegg, London 1840 ( online ).
• A System of Greek Prosody and Meter: for the use of schools and colleges 1839 ( online ).
• A System of Latin Prosody and Meter, from the Best Authorities, Ancient and Modern. Harper and Brothers, 1842 ( online ).
• First Greek lessons: containing all the inflexions of the Greek language, together with appropriate exercises in the translating and writing of Greek, for the use of beginners . Anthon's Greek Lessons, Part I, 1842 ( online ).
• An Introduction to Greek Prose Composition . Anthon's Greek Lessons, Part II, 1842 ( online ).
• First Latin Lessons, containing the most important parts of the grammar of the Latin language, together with appropriate exercises in the translating and writing of Latin, for the use of beginners . Anthon's Latin Grammar, Part I, 1838 ( online ).
• An Introduction to Latin Prose Composition . Anthon's Latin Grammar, Part II, 1842 ( online ).
• A Classical Dictionary, containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors. Harper and Brothers, 1842, ( online ).
• As editor: John Dymock: A new abridgement of Ainsworth 's dictionary: English and Latin, for the use of grammar schools. New edition, Butler & Williams, Philadelphia 1844 ( online ).
• A System of Latin Versification, in a series of progressive exercises. 1845 ( online ).
• As editor: A school dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities , abridged from the larger dictionary by William Smith, LL.D. 1846 ( online ).
• A system of ancient and mediæval geography for the use of schools and colleges. 1850 ( online ).
• A Manual of Roman Antiquities, with numerous illustrations. 1851 ( online ).
• A Manual of Grecian Antiquities, with numerous illustrations. 1852 ( online ).
• A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era. 1853 ( online ).
• A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the German-Latin dictionary of Dr. Karl Ernst Georges by Joseph Esmond Riddle and Thomas Kerchever Arnold . Harper & Brothers, New York 1856 ( online ).
• A Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary for the use of schools, chiefly from the lexicons of Freund , Georges, and Kaltschmidt. 1859 ( online ).
• As editor of the translation by Leonhard Schmitz: CG Zumpt : A School Grammar of the Latin Language. 1859 ( online ).
• A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography, partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith, LL.D. 1862 ( online ).

School editions with commentary

• C. Crispi Sallusti opera, omissis fragmentis, omnia: ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita , animadversionibus illustravit P. Wilson, LL.D., 4th ed. Recensuit notasque suas adspersit Charles Anthon, New York: Carvill (1825). online ; Charles Anthon, C. Crispi Sallustii de Catilinae conjuratione belloque Jugurthino Historiae , New York: Carvill (1829) online ; 4th ed., Boston (1833) online ; Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline, with an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes , 6th ed., New York: Harper and Brothers (1837) online ; 6th ed. (1838) online ; 10th ed. (1854) online
• Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War; and The First Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, Etc., and Historical, Geographical, and Archaeological Indexes, Harper and Brothers (1838). online (1862 printing)
• Q. Horatii Flacci Poëmata , New York: Carvill (1830). online ; The Works of Horace, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Harper and Brothers (1839); new edition (1849) online (1857 printing)
• The Greek Reader , by Frederic Jacobs, new edition, with English notes, critical and explanatory, a metrical index to Homer and Anacreon, and a copious lexicon. By Charles Anthon. (1840). on-line
• The Aeneid of Virgil, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Clavis, an Historical, Geographical, and Mythological Index, Harper and Brothers (1843). on-line
• M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationes Selectae , ex recensione Jo. Aug. Ernesti. , with an English commentary, London: Priestley (1837) online ; new edition, London (1846) online ; Select Orations of Cicero, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory , new edition, New York: Harper and Brothers (1845). online ; new edition (1849) online
• The De senectute, De amicitia, Paradoxa, and Somnium Scipionis of Cicero, and the Life of Atticus by Cornelius Nepos, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory (1848). on-line
• The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, A Metrical Index, and Homeric Glossary, Harper and Brothers (1851). online ; The first three books of Homer's Iliad, according to the ordinary text, and also with the restoration of the digamma , new edition by Benjamin Davies, London (1854) online
• The Anabasis of Xenophon, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory , Harper and Brothers (1852). on-line
• Cornelius Nepos with Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Harper and Brothers (1852). online (1871 printing)
• The Germania and Agricola, and also Selections from the Annals, of Tacitus, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory , (1847). online (1852 printing) ; (1853) online
• The Satires of Juvenal and Persius with English Notes Critical and Explanatory, from the Best Commentators, Harper and Brothers, (1857). on-line
• Hubert Ashton Holden , MT Ciceronis De Officiis libri tres, with marginal analysis and an English commentary , first American edition corrected and enlarged by Charles Anthon, (1859). on-line
• An English commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, and Troades of Euripides (1877). on-line

literature

• FJ Sypher: Charles Anthon: American Classicist. (= Scholars' facsimiles & reprints, 566). Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, Ann Arbor 2015. ISBN 9780820115665 .– Review by: Christopher Stray , in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015-05-17 .

Web links

• Entry on Charles Anthon in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)